One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is: "Traversing Gender: Cultural Context and Gender Practices," by Anne Bolin. Bolin offers her "five-form model of gender-variance." The importance of her examination of the ethnographic record and development of a five-form model of gender variance cannot be overestimated.

Ramet has drawn together a very worthy collection of scholarly articles that truly turn the two-sex, two-gender mind set into child's play. Here is an exceptional collection of multi-cultural, multi-topical well considered and written views of the glorious range of reversals of gender expression in thought, theatre, culture, mythology, rites, and ceremony.

This text could be offered in a wide range of scholarly courses in gender, women's, feminist, transgender, cultural, and religious studies; anthropology, history, cultural criticism, and even, political science. An enjoyable read.

There is certainly no shortage of books on the former Yugoslavia, some simply awful and some quite good. this is one of the better written, and the authors are respected academics. Interesting thesis, not entirely original, but sufficiently intersting to be worth the purchase price.